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United States
Immigration
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas must remove a series of buoys in its river border with Mexico. Judge Dana Douglas, a Biden-appointed judge, ruled Congress must pass a bill to build the buoy. Ken Paxton said he plans on appealing the decision to the Supreme Court. (Politico)
Breitbart News reported that just six Democrats joined every House Republican in supporting a bill to prevent President Biden from turning federal lands into migrant camps.
Bill Melugin of Fox News reported that border patrol apprehended 17,500 illegal aliens at the Tuscon, Arizona sector last week, the highest number ever reported in a single week in that sector. This doesn’t include gotaways.
A report from the Census found the foreign-born population in the U.S. hit an all-time high, with 49.5 million immigrants in the country. At 15 percent, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population is also the highest ever recorded in American history. (Center for Immigration Studies)
Education
A school district in Evanston, Illinois, has begun allowing children to separate themselves in classrooms based on race voluntarily. This comes straight out of CRT. The theories’ cofounders, Derek Bell and Richard Delgado, often ranted that Brown v. Board was decided incorrectly. Queen Dena Luna, a biracial woman who looks white, created the program so black students did not need to conform to white academic achievement standards. (The Wall Street Journal)
The University of Texas at Austin abolished a pro-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) fellowship that would have awarded jobs to 14 applicants ahead of the new anti-DEI law in the state. The new law requires state institutions to end differential treatment or "special benefits" based on race or ethnicity and programs "designed or implemented about race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation." (KVUE)